Agentforce Vibes
We're pickin' up good vibrations. But will Dreamforce give us excitations?
Dreamforce is about a week away, so let me start with a bit of gentle-hearted ribbing here: Agentforce Vibes? That’s a less common tense of English called the “stative present” (unless it’s the “present habitual tense”), somewhat like the title of Roger Miller’s 1965 song “England Swings”.1 But why then is the name of the VS Code plug in “Vibe Codey”2? Does Codey not have the vibes too?
If there was an official Dreamforce newsletter called “Agentforce Vibes”, that would have been clever with just enough of a wink. Or Dreamforce Vibes.
Here’s a grab from a video showing Vibe Codey:
If you already have Agentforce for Developers installed, you might have noticed it looks an awful lot like Vibe Astro (albeit with two less vibes):
Is Vibe Codey3 just going to be just a mascot switch on the “Vibe Astro” edition45?
If your memory is long enough, you might remember that Dev Agent (aka, Vibe Astro) is just a fork of the popular VS Code plug-in, Cline:
Salesforce did announce, much more quietly (if Linkedin is quiet), a new model for coding, so perhaps the combination of a tuned-to-Salesforce model combined with better support in the coding tool is the real news here? That seems more likely, but it’s also probably not as great a marketing message. It’s a bit like cars that sell themselves by how many drink holders they have: it works, but sheesh.
Also part of Agentforce Vibes is a new/updated Salesforce DX MCP that’s being released. It’s mostly an MCP wrapper around Salesforce APIs and CLI tools, making their capabilities more readily accessible to AI applications. That’s good, but also doesn’t suggest anything new in terms of fundamental capabilities. My rule of thumb: if a Salesforce product isn’t claimed by a mascot, that’s concerning.
So what does Agentforce Vibes get us, assuming the minimal view turns out to be correct? I think a vibe coding tool that is better tuned to Salesforce tasks, but not amazingly better at most than other LLMs could achieve. If you ask GPT-5 to spit out Apex code, it knows how.
Agentforce Vibes does get Salesforce a flashy demo and the opportunity to use the vibe buzzword. In all these demos, how will they position it? An incremental improvement and another few steps along a journey to great automated tools? Or a step-right-up-this-baby-does-it-all vibe coding tool?
I hope they aren’t going to try to convince administrators (who aren’t developers) that they can now take on complex development tasks6. It’s so easy to get into serious trouble that way. Salesforce implementations, especially geriatric ones, tend to be massive, confusing, and poorly structured. You can’t just “vibe” to improve them, you need to approach things with rigor and methodology. Does Vibe Codey have that rigor and methodology? He’s a bear, after all, probably the kind who breaks into an ice cream shop and A/B tests ice cream flavors.7. The jury’s out on rigor. But definitely in on strawberry.
My concern is that an admin vibe coder can still have a great first experience with Vibe Codey, because Codey will be focused on the immediate gratification of their, uh, vibes. So people will go home thrilled with the art of the possible. But weeks or months later, it’s Technical Debt Codey8 you’re working with, and things aren’t as fast, fun, or productive as they seemed from the get go. If the admins flame out, I hope people realize that it’s Codey, not the admins.
To be fair, Salesforce often introduces a bear9 minimum in early versions and fleshes it out over time. Agentforce itself has come a long, long way from its Einstein Copilot roots. So consider this merely a transient skepticism.
One way or another, it’s going to be interesting!
And like “England Swings”, it’s a bit hard to know what it means. Still, Roger Miller was a pretty sharp wordsmith, won a ton of awards including Grammys and Tonys, did the sound track for Disney’s Robin Hood, so I assume it meant something to him…
So do we get a new furry wandering around Moscone who is Codey but vibing? What would that look like? Codey has a high fever?
And if a bear is to be our programming side kick, shouldn’t he be “Vibe Boo-Boo?”
This is running on my laptop
I made that name up, to be clear.
And I really hope they don’t try to convince C-suite people of that.
I have to assume this was Codey: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/bear-lake-tahoe-ice-cream-shop.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rk8.LG5t.ZhQqi5MBxQYH&smid=url-share With a perfect “Yes, I am the new employee give me a moment to open up” photograph.
Mr. Ranger is not going to be happy with Codey Bear, I tell ya. Way too many stolen PBJs that need to be paid back. Or ice cream gallons.
Intentional pun